Here Are The Best & Worst Moments From The WH Correspondents' Dinner
The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is traditionally filled with out-of-touch liberal elites in the media, Hollywood & politics rubbing elbows in fancy ball gowns and tuxedos, while they thumb their nose at middle America. While that was true this year, there were some moments that enraged liberals and delighted conservatives, with emphasis on the word some. It was…
The Tucker Carlson Backlash and the Fox Conundrum
Back there in the 1960’s golden era of rock and roll, (from 1966 to 1968) a group known as Buffalo Springfield dominated the air waves for a rock moment Their big 1967 hit was titled "For What It’s Worth." And its lyrics included these memorable lines:
Networks Yawn at Anemic 1st Quarter GDP Report, Obsess Over Weather
On Thursday, Americans awoke to yet another sign our economy is barreling toward a recession caused by reckless government spending and 40-year-high inflation as the U.S. Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy grew at a pathetic 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2023. This is well below the two percent growth economists were expecting, and a far cry from the 2.6 percent GDP…
WATCH: KJP Cowardly Insists Biden Wasn’t Given a Pre-Screened Question
Thursday’s White House press briefing featured an embarrassing performance by the ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as she tried to defend and explain away an infamous photo captured of President Biden holding a card Wednesday afternoon with the name of a reporter he called on (Courtney Subramanian of the Los Angeles Times) and a typed-out question that was close to the…
Tucker Breaks His Silence on Twitter After Firing, Hints at Return
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson broke his silence Wednesday night in a two-minute-long video posted to Twitter. In it, he torches the establishment media and what he describes as both political parties and their donors reaching "consensus on what benefits them and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it." He ends the video with a hint that his future in conservative…
Nets Uninterested in Biden Getting Caught With Journo's Q in Advance
Late Wednesday afternoon, The New York Post was the first to report on a photo taken by an AFP photojournalist which appeared to show the 80-year-old President Joe Biden had advanced knowledge of at least one reporter's question (LA Times reporter Courtney Subramanian) during Wednesday's joint press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. The photo quickly spread online…
'60 Minutes' Ray Epps Story 'Raises More Questions Than Answers'
When we list the types of media bias, one of them has always been Bias by Story Selection. When 60 Minutes devoted a softball segment to January 6 rioter Ray Epps on Sunday, the question was why him? And why now? Why did the media obsess over January 6 for two years and never get to this?
MRC Leaders Sound Off on Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon Being Fired
On Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, the Media Research Center led the way in providing reaction to and instant analysis at NewsBusters, online, and on the radio about the bombshell firings of Tucker Carlson by Fox News and Don Lemon at CNN. This included three spots from MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell, NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, and NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis…
Daily Show, Buttigieg Team Up To Attack GOP 'Culture Wars,' Fox
For Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, temp host Desi Lydic sat down for an interview with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg where the two teamed up to attack GOP “culture wars” and Fox News.
Late Night Responds To Carlson, Lemon With 16x As Many Carlson Jokes
The Monday news media news surrounding Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon provided the late night comedy shows a golden opportunity to show they aren’t just liberal partisans. However, they would fail this test as individual jokes about Carlson outnumbered jokes about Lemon 32-to-2 with five additional jokes about both men.
George Conway: Tucker Viewers 'Don't Want to Think for Themselves'
On Morning Joe, George Conway of the disgraced Lincoln Project, commenting on the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, says that Carlson's MAGA viewers "don't want to think for themselves."
NY Times: Fox News Won't Be ‘Humbler or Gentler’ (Less Conservative)
The Jeremy Peters “Media Memo” on the front of Monday’s New York Times Business section, “Will the Fox-Dominion Settlement Affect Its News Coverage? Don’t Count on It, " went beyond the embarrassing particulars of the Fox News settlement with Dominion Voting Systems to hint racism at the right-leaning network, and also chided it for not showing “humility” by bowing to…
Theories Abound! Rumors Swirl on CNN Firing Lemon, Fox Ousting Carlson
The respective reasoning behind Monday’s bombshell firings of Don Lemon by CNN and Tucker Carlson at Fox News came into focus by evening as it became evident that Lemon’s luck had been finally squeezed out among CNN executives following a tense, race-bait-filled interview with 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. And, in the case of Carlson, liberal journalists ran with a whole…
WH Press Ignore KJP Rant on GOP Filling U.S. With Smog, ‘Melt Bones’
Prior to the weekend, more Hunter Biden headlines, and Monday’s media tsunami regarding Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon, there was Friday’s White House press briefing and it began with a rant from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ghoulishly claiming House Republicans want to “fill our cities with smog,” “give asthma to our children,” and allow oil companies to use chemicals that…
